Author Archives: SignpostMarv

How Mainstream Media views Second Life

Generally after an article is published with this view of Second Life (it being a dull hole in the ground with nothing to do), pretty much every savvy Resident points out how wrong they are. Original strip Dilbert characters are by Scott Adams and ©2009, United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Mashup created under the Collaborative Content [...]

Studio Ghibli Films as MMOGs

The last couple days I’ve been thinking about how various Studio Ghibli films could be adapted to MMOGs, which would work, which wouldn’t etc. Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro If Lupin III were adapted as an MMOG, I don’t imagine it would be more than a generic Crime MMOG with the Lupin III label [...]

Dogbert: Linden Lab CTO

Original strip Dilbert characters are by Scott Adams and ©2009, United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Mashup created under the Collaborative Content License of The Official Dilbert Website terms, from where the above images originated.

Second Life History: key events

So I’m working on the notes for my presentation at SL6B on Second Life’s history- here are the items I’ve got so far: Linden Lab Linden World Linden Dollars Vertex Shading Open Source WindLight Sculpted Prims Voice Chat Mono Tax Revolt First Birthday Event Burning life Teen Second Life Second Birthday Event Third Birthday Event [...]

Metaverse ID: first Second Life WordPress plugin in the official directory

Okay, I know oldbies hate it when something floats around about “firsts” in Second Life, but I do think its rather nifty that Metaverse ID is the first plugin for Second Life listed in the official WordPress Plugin Directory!

Metaverse ID plugin released to public

Currently at version 0.5 (yay incremental improvements!), I’ve decided to push the code to the public SVN server over at google code. I’ve also created a wiki page describing Metaverse ID, that’ll I’ll be keeping up to date with the supported Metaverses etc. Please file any bugs you discover in the plugin on the Google [...]

Retiring swslr project

So I’ve decided to retire the swslr project. I’d like to thank Pyrii, Zai and Gwyn for the feedback they’ve given me on various aspects of the project, and I’d like to thank Ina for hosting the database the last several months! There are a few reasons I’ve decided to retire the project- some of [...]

Catbert: Linden Lab Blogger

Original strip Dilbert characters are by Scott Adams and ©2009, United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Mashup created under the Collaborative Content License of The Official Dilbert Website terms, from where the above images originated.

OpenID aint evil, it's just a pain

So a friend of mine sent me a link to one of Prok’s latest blog posts- “The Evils of OpenID“-, probably expecting me to agree that Prok is being a raving loony. Unfortunately, there are some things in the post that I do agree with. Prok’s points: I won’t be responding to all of Prok’s [...]

Reducing support for Internet Explorer (versions below 8)

UPDATE Okay, so perhaps I was a little bit harsh on Trident- the CSS 2.1 portions of the new design for sw.slr work flawlessly in IE8, so with Dean Edwards’ Javascript libraries, the CSS3 portions should work sufficiently as well. So I’ve decided to rephrase my position as “reducing” support for IE- it is still [...]

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